Which Red Hat Should Be Worn in the Enterprise? 710
weatherbug asks: "I've recently been appointed as a member of a team to help determine the direction our organization is headed with Red Hat Linux. Currently we're using multiple versions from Red Hat 6.x through Advance Server 2.1. However, now that Red Hat has effectively separated their distributions into a 'consumer' (Red Hat 8,9, etc) and 'enterprise' (Red Hat Adv. Server 2.x, etc), we
aren't sure which version we want to adopt. A Red Hat salesman recently told us that the 'consumer' version of Red Hat was mostly for hackers and hobbyists who weren't concerned about stability and wanted the most up-to-date software, while the 'enterprise' version would be more stable and have a five-year product lifetime. As a long time Linux system administrator, I feel that this is a sales tactic and that there really is no compelling reason for us to ever use the 'enterprise' version. After all, it is Linux and it is open source, and we have enough in-house talent to not need Red Hat support. Why would we ever need or care about a five-year product lifetime? Am I wrong, and if so, could you set us straight? We'd be interested to know what other large organizations have decided to do."
I reccomend... (Score:1, Funny)
I'm more worried about... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh wait, nevermind...
Neither (Score:4, Funny)
-- SCO Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
GRRRRRRRR..... (Score:5, Funny)
As one who works somewhere where the pointy haired idiots don't even want to hear the word Linux, I would kill to have your problems.
Quit whining and pick one you lucky little bastard.
Re:Neither (Score:4, Funny)
OK, who let loose the debian zealot? What the.. SCO? Who are they? Am I missing something?
Re:I'm more worried about... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why bother at all? (Score:2, Funny)
Uhh, Redhat? Are you insane!??!! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I'm more worried about... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'm more worried about... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:What My Organization Did: (Score:2, Funny)
Typing FREEbsd instead of FreeBSD got it modded up because the Linux zeolots just wanted to annoy the BSD fans.
heres a fun thing to try.. post an informative comment on apple.slashdot.org but use MACs instead of Macs, that really pisses people off!